According to the Healthy China Initiative, the incidence rate of diabetes is 12.8% in China, with about 150 million patients, and the incidence rate of dyslipidemia is 18.6%, with about 160 million patients. Common rice has a relatively high percentage of digestible starch and is therefore considered as a kind of food with a high glycemic index (GI). Breeding new varieties of rice rich in resistant starch or slowly digestible starch can meet the needs of “diabetes and obesity” patients and mak...

On November 12th, the “Frontiers in Organ Transplantation 2021 Joint Symposium” was successfully held in Affiliated Hangzhou First People's Hospital, Zhejiang University School of Medicine. The conference was co-chaired by Prof. XU Xiao from the Zhejiang University School of Medicine, and Prof. Kourosh Saeb-Parsy from the University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine.  Prof. HE Lianzhen and Prof. Patrick Maxwell delivered the opening remarksCo-chairmen: Prof. XU Xiao a...

A comprehensive assessment of the influence of climate on past societal changes is key to understanding human vulnerability to present and future climate change. However, few studies have advanced beyond qualitative associations and often indulge in environmentally deterministic or overly simple monocausal explanations. Even where links can be convincingly argued in individual cases, such as between an abrupt change in climate and the collapse or fall of a civilization, major questions remain re...

[Message from the editor: Two ZJU faculty members were listed among the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific 2021. In the recent interview, Dr. PAN Liqiang, one of the honorees and a principal investigator at the Zhejiang University College of Pharmaceutical Sciences shared his research and insights into innovation.]Q1：First of all, congratulations to you for being recognized on the 2021 MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific List. Can you briefly introduc...

The Expo Axis at the World Exposition 2010 in Shanghai, the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center featuring an iconic lotus-petal design, and the reflective surface back frame of China’s Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)……These imposing landmark buildings and projects have a common feature—a modern spatial structure characterized by its wide span, spacious room and large area. Over the past 30 years, the team led by Prof. LUO Yaozhi at the College of Civil Engineering and ...

Dr. HUANG Chongwen, a professor at the Zhejiang University College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering (ISEE), was honored the 16th IEEE ComSoc Asia-Pacific Outstanding Young Researcher Award by the IEEE Communications Society.  As the highest honor for young researchers under the age of 35 in the field of information and communication in the region, the Award celebrates Dr. Huang’s contribution to the 6G wireless communication network enabled by the Intel...

Nitrogen is intimately related to our life, and reactive nitrogen in the atmosphere is primarily comprised of ammonia (NH3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx), which are the main precursors of PM2.5. NOx stems principally from urban production activities while NH3 is emitted chiefly from agricultural production.In a study published in Science on Nov. 5, researchers analyzed for the first time the contribution of ammonia (NH3) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) in the formation o...

Despite the difficulties brought about by COVID-19 around the world, aspiring young scientists dedicated themselves to building a better future for mankind. The 2021 list of the MIT Technology Review Innovators Under 35 Asia Pacific was released recently, which included two ZJU faculty members, Dr. LEE Hyeon Jeong and Dr. PAN Liqiang. LEE Hyeon JeongPosition: Principal Investigator, College of Biomedical Engineering and Instrument ScienceContribution: Dr. LEE Hyeon Jeong developed a se...

Cancer is a major health hazard for mankind. Chemotherapy is the most prevalent way in the battle against cancer. However, its side effects may severely erode patients’ living standards. For example, oxaliplatin tends to induce acute neurotoxicity marked by cold allodynia in the hands and feet of patients. Unfortunately, there has been no effective treatment against such neuropathy yet. The transient receptor potential melastatin 8 (TRPM8) ion channel is critically involved in the pathogenesis ...

Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are highly involved in the progression of diverse diseases. Therefore, targeting EV biogenesis is a potential strategy for the treatment of the related diseases, which urges an improved understanding of EV biogenesis. During the biogenesis of EV subset, exosomes, invagination of the plasma membranes forms early endosomes which mature into late endosomes and multivesicular bodies (MVBs) eventually. MVBs fuse with not only the plasma membranes to release EVs but also l...